<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-21/magazine/fall-1996/learning-laboratory.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Learning in the Laboratory</title><excerpt>What careers and opportunities await Westmont graduates with degrees in biology, chemistry, and engineering physics? Just about anything they can imagine. With two graduates currently enrolled at Harvard, three at UCLA and the University of Pennsylvania, and one each attending Stanford, Cornell, and Princeton, these departments are successfully placing students in prestigious graduate schools (see the chart on page 23). At the same time, 85 percent of Westmont graduates who apply to medical school get in. Other alums land significant positions with research companies, and some even start their own thriving firms.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
            
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